The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 65
You can believe me or not, but I have not laid a finger on the vase."
Who acts: You, I · What happens: believe, not lay · To what, where: me, finger, vase
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 believe | aux |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 not | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 believe | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laid | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 laid | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 laid | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 laid | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 laid | advmod |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 believe | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 finger | det |
| 14 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 vase | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 vase | det |
| 17 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | can | You | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not lay | present · perfect | I | a finger | the vase | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme on vase=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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